Though DAT files, which house data as the shortened name implies, are usually best left alone, here's how you can open them.

What is the deal with those winmail. dat files? I get them in my email all the time, and nothing seems to be able to open them.

On occasion you may receive a strange attachment in your email called Winmail.dat. When you try to open it Windows will not let you, and the person sending it to you has no idea what it is. Do not ...

We keep getting e-mail attachments in winmail.dat files, and can't open them. What's going on? Is there a utility that can extract the attachments from these?

Finally, try WMDecode, a free utility that will scan the Winmail.dat file for attachments (and only attachments, not the formatted version of the e-mail) and save the items along with their ...

I was confused by your answer regarding winmail.dat. The file cannot be opened traditionally, at least to obtain what the receiver believes to be valuable contents. Rather, it's used internally by ...

Examples include Winmail Opener, Winmaildat.com and the Winmail.dat Reader (see Resources). The software will automatically display the contents of the DAT file if it was an email attachment.

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